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Friday, 8 September 2017

Nigeria Customs Service gets N183b revenue in TinCan Port

The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Tincan Island Port Command, has recorded a
revenue generation of N183billion within the last eight months.

The Controller, TinCan Command, Comptroller, Bashar Yusuf, while examining
its operations during the period, said the Command recorded the highest revenue
of N28billion in the month of August.

Yusuf said the impressive revenue yield was possible as a result of
coordinated activities and innovative spirit of the men of the Command.

According to him, the Command has had a sustained high revenue profile since
the beginning of the year, having introduced stern measures that blocked all
possible areas of revenue loss in the command.

The N28billion realised in August was described as the highest in the history
of the command, particularly in the corresponding periods over the past years.

With the N183billion revenue realised between January and August 2017, the
sum of N156billion was realised during the same period in 2016, despite global
economic recession

The Comptroller said: “It therefore implies that but for the exclusion of
forty-one (41) items from Forex window; the Command could have doubled its
revenue profile.

“A further analysis shows that the Command is becoming more thorough in its
Revenue drive, to the extent that all high yielding revenue consignments are
closely monitored to avoid circumvention of procedure.”

Yusuf said the Customs high Command expects so much from the Command, adding
that with this, the Command “will continue to develop adequate operational
template and modalities that will be capable of entrenching integrity in the
acumen of our operations.”

He said all officers and men of the Command have a compelling need to
discharge their functions in line with the change mantra of the
Comptroller-General of Customs Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (Rtd).

The Controller extolled the virtues of the Customs management, and vowed to
sustain and surpass the revenue target of the Command in line with the
expectations of the Nigeria Customs Service management.

The Controller appreciated the compliance level of stakeholders in the port
to government’s fiscal policies in terms of trade.

He however advised the few recalcitrant ones to follow the path of sanity
through honest declaration in their documentations, adding that “integrity, due
diligence, honest declarations and transparency are key elements in 21st
Century Customs Operations.”

On his plans for the ember months, he pointed out that high cargo traffic is
usually expected at this period of the year and advised importers to desist
from importing unaccustomed goods in view of its implication.

“All Importers ought to be conversant with the external tariff, especially
schedules 3 & 4 (prohibition other than trade and absolute prohibition),”
he said.

He also called on patriotic Nigerians, to oblige the Command with credible
information about illicit transactions or documentation, promising that the
identity of such informant would be jealously guarded.